GBMelBlount
08-01-2014, 11:06 PM
It finally happened.
After a minicamp in which fights broke out on nearly a daily basis, the Steelers' first training camp brawl happened Friday during the team's night practice at Latrobe Memorial Stadium.
Running back Le'Veon Bell and linebacker Vince Williams got into it during the backs on 'backers drill, and it escalated to the point fellow RB LeGarrette Blount got involved, leading to defensive assistant coach Joey Porter pulling him off of Williams.
(something that slipped our minds, Blount wasn't even in pads, according to an eyewitness)
This narrative reads like something on the cutting room floor of Rocky IV, after Ivan Drago grabbed Balboa by the throat and clocked him square in the mouth. Only if Rocky had Joey Porter training him, it would have been even more savage.
As it is, some things don't change. Joey Porter is on the field and a huge fight breaks out. But, as negatively as this will be considered by many, the fact Blount goes in for his teammate, along with the general fiery level of competition boiling over, has to be encouraging for coaches and fans.
http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2014-pittsburgh-steelers-training-camp-news-times-schedule-tickets-updates/2014/8/1/5961223/steelers-training-camp-fights-2014
After a minicamp in which fights broke out on nearly a daily basis, the Steelers' first training camp brawl happened Friday during the team's night practice at Latrobe Memorial Stadium.
Running back Le'Veon Bell and linebacker Vince Williams got into it during the backs on 'backers drill, and it escalated to the point fellow RB LeGarrette Blount got involved, leading to defensive assistant coach Joey Porter pulling him off of Williams.
(something that slipped our minds, Blount wasn't even in pads, according to an eyewitness)
This narrative reads like something on the cutting room floor of Rocky IV, after Ivan Drago grabbed Balboa by the throat and clocked him square in the mouth. Only if Rocky had Joey Porter training him, it would have been even more savage.
As it is, some things don't change. Joey Porter is on the field and a huge fight breaks out. But, as negatively as this will be considered by many, the fact Blount goes in for his teammate, along with the general fiery level of competition boiling over, has to be encouraging for coaches and fans.
http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2014-pittsburgh-steelers-training-camp-news-times-schedule-tickets-updates/2014/8/1/5961223/steelers-training-camp-fights-2014